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News Articles: World

A TV screen shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea stand in line to receive supplies from Russia during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

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  • World

U.S. says North Korea has sent troops to Russia for training

The deployment raises the potential for the North Koreans to join Russian forces in Ukraine and suggests expanded military ties between the two nations as Moscow seeks weapons and troops.

October 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Gisele Pelicot, who was allegedly drugged by her now former husband so that he and others could assault her, arrived at a courthouse, in Avignon, southern France, Oct. 16.

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  • World

Mass trial shines a light on rape culture in France

A harrowing and unprecedented trial in France is exposing how pornography, chatrooms and men’s disdain for or hazy understanding of consent is fueling rape culture.

October 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Smoke rises as emergency rescue teams and police officers attend to the scene of an attack outside Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. on the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday.

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  • World

An attack on a Turkish defense company has killed 4 people

Assailants set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS, causing a number of casualties.

October 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Garment workers in Bangladesh protest for better working conditions.

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  • Global Health

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever

Their wages have always been low. With rising inflation and falling prices paid by Western companies for clothing, they're protesting for better pay — and hoping the new government will spur change.

October 23, 2024
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  • Shamim Chowdhury
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in Ottawa, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Canadian Cabinet voices support for Trudeau as some Liberals prepare to confront him

Canada's deputy prime minister said she believes Justin Trudeau has the support of a majority of Liberals in Parliament as some prepare to confront him Wednesday in the hopes of convincing him to step down.

October 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
An aerial photograph from 2023 of the Rusayo camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have found refuge around Goma after fleeing fighting further north. Two new reports document a 'staggering' increase in rapes over the past year.

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  • Global Health

Why this country is seeing a 'staggering' increase in the number of rapes

New reports from Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors Without Borders document a "massive influx" of sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. What can be done to stop it?

October 22, 2024
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A general view to the Kremlin towers and Ivan the Great cathedral in May 2024. U.S. intelligence officials say Russia was behind an attempt to spread baseless claims about Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.

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  • Politics

U.S. intel officials say Russia is behind attempts to smear Tim Walz

A video making lurid and false claims about the Democratic vice presidential candidate was spread by pro-Trump accounts. Intelligence officials say Russia was behind the video.

October 22, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
People watch a building collapse after being hit by an Israeli airstrike in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it killed a top Hezbollah official expected to be the group's next leader

The Israeli military said that one of its airstrikes earlier this month killed Hashem Safieddine. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about the fate of top official.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
An Air India airlines jet is pictured in September 2023 in Lido Beach, N.Y. The airline was one of many affected by hoax bomb threats over the past week.

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  • World

6 Indian airlines flights declare emergencies amid spate of fake bomb threats

Six flights from India declared emergencies within 30 minutes of each other. It comes as fake bomb threats are causing disruptions, diversions and delays for scores of flights on Indian airlines.

October 22, 2024
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  • James Doubek
Lee Hsien Yang (right) receives friends and family members paying their respects to the late Lee Kuan Yew during a private family wake at the Istana or Presidential Palace in Singapore, March 24, 2015.

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  • Asia

The son of Singapore's founder says he has been granted political asylum in the U.K.

Lee Hsien Yang, the brother of Singapore's former prime minister, said he is a "political refugee" after the U.K. government granted him asylum from what he described as persecution at home.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Dr. Stefan Khmil performs artificial insemination on a patient in his Clinic of Prof. Stefan Khmil in Ternopil, Ukraine, on July 12.

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  • Europe

As Ukraine's birth rate plunges, here's what one doctor is doing to reverse the trend

Ukraine is suffering from more than a Russian invasion. Births have plummeted. But many families with help from the government and doctors are trying to buck the trend and have a child in wartime.

October 22, 2024
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  • Ashley Westerman
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving construction giant Odebrecht that became synonymous with corruption in Latin America.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
People gather around the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez during a mass at the main plaza in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Monday.

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  • World

Hundreds mourn Catholic priest and Indigenous peace activist killed in southern Mexico

Marcelo Pérez continued to work as a peace activist despite threats. Advocates say he did not receive the government protection he needed.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A Latvian choir, celebrating their victory in an international competition in Moldova, cheers in support of the European referendum near the Moldovan Parliament on Monday in Chișinău, Moldova.

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  • Europe

Moldova barely approves its EU referendum amid allegations of Russian interference

Moldova voted in favor of adding a path to the European Union to its constitution, and gave the incumbent president the most votes in elections Sunday, but neither result was the win leaders wanted.

October 21, 2024
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  • Charles Maynes
People inspect the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted a branch of the Al-Qard Al-Hassan finance group in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday.

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  • Middle East

Lebanon assesses the damage after Israel strikes Hezbollah-linked banks

Israel's military carried out airstrikes overnight on targets in Lebanon that the military says belong to Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a financial institution that undergirds the militant group Hezbollah.

October 21, 2024
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